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"During Monday's heavy rain, I saw a female garment worker stumbling into an unmarked under-construction manhole."
MUNSHI HABIBUR RAHMAN
employee of a barbershop at Jamtala of East Shewrapara,
With the approval of the Dhaka City Corporation, different service providers have dug up 7,555 square metres of city roads, which is making life difficult
for the city dwellers.

“If the Vasu Bihar and Bihar Dhap, divided by a 1-km road and cultivable land, could be excavated and studied properly, the patterns of a university complex could be found.”
NAHID SULTANA
leader of a government archaeological excavation team.
The team found a 1500-year-old Vasu Bihar in Bogra.
"We think a university campus lies buried there. Maybe the Pala dynasty built the Vasu Bihar on the structure knowingly or unknowingly," she told The Daily Star.

"She shattered barriers on behalf of my daughters and women everywhere, who now know that there are no limits to their dreams."
BARACK OBAMA
winner of Democratic Party presidential
nomination
about his rival in the party
Hillary Clinton

"Overnight change isn't possible in a British-era organisation."
NUR MOHAMMAD
inspector general of police
about reforms of the police.

"We cannot let the sprit of the liberation war be destroyed, and it is our sacred duty to make the educational institutions free from crime and violence."
KAMAL HOSSAIN
jurist and president of Gono Forum.

"To save our students from the clutch of the politicians, we have to create an environment of morality on the campuses."
SM SHAHJAHAN
former adviser to caretaker government.

" The government may have to increase fuel prices soon, but while doing so, it will have to consider the purchasing capability of the general public as poor people use kerosene and the farmers use diesel for irrigation…The government should keep that in mind."
MUSTAFIZUR RAHMAN
executive director
Centre for Policy Dialogue.

"All things I have are in Bangladesh."
KHALEDA ZIA
former prime minister and chairperson on Bangladesh Nationalist Party..

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